Tuesday, December 16, 2008

This week I was meant to have a look at Omnidrive, a file storage site, but it was on the blink so I was advised to have a look at Boxnet. Boxnet and similar sites are much used by small businesses and the like for backing up their computer data at a fraction of what it used to cost to have it done locally. The "share drive ' aspect of the service is good too, especially if you are wanting to move large documents from person to person quickly and without going via email. There may be niche situations which might warrant using this system for work, but by and large it would not be suitable for anything internal. Also our security prompts spring into action every time we go near it, so that has got to be telling us something. I did not set up an account because of security promtpts and because when I read the agreement, it made it clear that the owners of the site could unilaterally change the terms of the agreement at anytime without notice. Given that they do seem to charge for the service and would want a credit card, I thought caution was the prudent course.

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